Chapter 146: The Great War Ends and the Old Man Returns
It is difficult to answer the question of whether the times make heroes or heroes create the times, but sometimes a small person who is not a hero can stir up the world. The fuse of World War I, the poor Austro-Hungarian crown prince was killed by a small person, and it was because of this little person that a great war that swept the world, which no one could have imagined.
And this time, You Ziyuan understood the power of the little man, a messenger sent from Bingzhou, and the plan that he had been planning for so long had a huge change.
This messenger, who didn't even leave his name, finally arrived when most of the army of Shile entered the Longshan Mountains, when he saw the tail of Shile's army, the war horse had exhausted the last bit of strength, it had to throw its most loyal master down, before dying, the war horse used its last strength to look at its master, and then closed its eyes with the last attachment to this world.
And the messenger was carried to Shi Le's side, his head hit the ground hard, if it weren't for the last faith to support him, it is estimated that he would have left this world with his beloved companion his own war horse Xiao Wu.
The messenger came to Shiler's side, and with a trembling hand from his bosom a sweat-soaked letterhead to Shile.
"Come on, take this brother to rest. He did not read the letter, but arranged for the messenger first, so that the little man's heart warmed, and with this satisfaction, the messenger smiled and followed his horse.
"Your Majesty, he's dead. Shile's guard nodded in response, only to see at once that the messenger was wrong.
"This person is also working hard for my Shile, but now that we have a heavy burden, we can only bury it first, and when we go back, this person's family and I Shile will not be treated badly, you must remember to remind me. After Shi Le finished speaking, his personal guards became more loyal to him, and these people all felt that they could have such a master, which they had cultivated in their previous lives.
When Shi Le finished his show and finally opened the envelope, it turned out to be a map, and he immediately took it out, and when he read the map, the whole person shuddered, and his face became extremely ugly.
"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" asked Shi Le's son, Taiyuan King Shi Bin, who was also the only son he had followed.
"Bin'er, my father wants to entrust you with something, I don't know if Wu'er can do it. After Shi Le finished speaking, Shi Bin, who was not very favored by Shi Le, immediately knelt down and agreed. Shi Le helped him up, and then whispered to him, Shi Bin immediately took action after hearing this.
When Shi Le saw Shi Bin leaving happily, he silently apologized to his son in his heart, but Shi Le quickly returned to his true colors. Shi Le's rear army walked more and more slowly, and he wouldn't even notice it if he didn't pay attention, in fact, on the road that could accommodate seven or eight soldiers walking side by side, only the soldiers on both sides would move forward slowly, while the middle ones were marching backwards quickly, this kind of poor vision was not clear to people with extraordinary eyesight like Chu Yun.
Half an hour later, You Ziyuan finally saw the strangeness, after all, there were fewer and fewer enemy troops on the road, and the Shile army, which should have entered the mountains almost completely, had not yet entered all, and the rear army outside the mountains was gathering more and more, and You Ziyuan couldn't see it anymore, he was not worthy of Chu Yun's trust.
"The situation is not right, Shile actually found out and immediately took action. After You Ziyuan finished speaking to Bo Bing, Bo Bing immediately ordered his subordinates to shoot arrows, and the 150,000 troops who had been waiting for a long time swarmed out, and immediately cut off Shile's army into several sections by taking advantage of the mountain situation.
However, the 30,000 troops who were ordered to block the back road of the Shile army had a problem, and they did not wait to block the back road with the prepared obstacles, and the more than 20,000 cavalry of the Shile rear army broke through the defense line they hastily formed and killed them directly, they did not expect that there would be cavalry charging into the formation. Moreover, most of the 30,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty were infantry, and they could only watch the 20,000 cavalry leave, but fortunately, the mouth was finally blocked, and the more than 60,000 Shile army became the turtle in the urn.
"Shousuke, the mouth is blocked, I don't know who commanded Shile's rear army, he is so alert, but fortunately, Shile didn't run out, you see his honor guard is still there. Bo Bing replied excitedly.
"No, I think it's Shile who ran away. You Ziyuan shook his head, except for Shi Le, the other generals didn't have the courage to flee even if they found out that something was wrong, but Bo Bing was still a little unconvinced, after all, around Shi Le's guard of honor, the Ming army and the Great Zhao army were inseparable, if it wasn't for Shi Le's presence, it would never be so intense.
The wanderer was far from answering, and he felt that his feelings would not be wrong. In fact, the wanderer thought well, it was not Shi Le but Shi Le's son Shi Bin who was in Shi Le's honor guard, and the person in charge of the middle command was Shi Le's general Kong Chang, how did the Zhao general who eliminated Duan's Xianbei not know that they were abandoned by Shi Le, although Shi Bin kept preaching that Shi Le came back to rescue them, but Kong Chang knew Shi Le's character, but after all, he had served Shi Le for decades, and Shi Le did not treat him badly, so he thought it was for his majesty Shi Le to buy time, so under his command, the soldiers of the Qi nationality would be so tenacious.
Compared with the dissatisfaction in the middle section, the situation of the vanguard army commanded by the peach leopard is much better, although the soldiers of the Qian nationality are really tenacious, but they are in the minority after all, most of the vanguard army are Han and other Hu people, they have no determination to serve Shi Le, although the peach leopard is fully agitated and commanded, but it can not prevent the end of failure.
A day later, the Shile army that was cut into several sections has been wiped out in half, and it has to be said that the Later Zhao army was indeed a strong army at that time, and it did not surrender in this case, and it also caused huge casualties to the Ming army.
However, the defeat of the Shile army, which had no reinforcements and not much supplies, was decided, and when Chu Yun arrived, it was already a week later, and the more than 80,000 Shile troops were wiped out except for the 20,000 who fled with Shile. Kong Chang was killed in battle, Shi Bin was killed in battle, and basically none of the nearly 20,000 soldiers of the 60,000 army surrendered, all of them were killed. The unlucky man of Peach Leopard was captured by Chu Yun's men again, and more than 20,000 people were captured with him.
And they also caused nearly 20,000 casualties to the Ming army, and under the absolute advantage of the Ming army, they were able to cause so many casualties to the Ming army, even the wanderer did not expect it. One of the most tragic is Kong Chang and Shi Bin commanded thousands of people, they caused the greatest damage to the Ming army, after they were attacked, quickly rushed up the hillside, occupied a high ground, and then resisted the Ming army, repelled dozens of attacks of the Ming army, if it was not for the wandering Ziyuan ordered to burn the mountain, it is estimated that the casualty rate is higher, Kong Chang and other thousands of people with fire to the Ming army also left a deep impression on the Ming army.
When Chu Yun arrived, You Ziyuan immediately pleaded guilty to Chu Yun, the crime was to let Shi Le go, of course Chu Yun would not show his dissatisfaction with him, but tried his best to appease him and make his eldest son a marquis, after all, Chu Yun had issued a decree that the Lord was not allowed to enter the cabinet, and You Ziyuan Chu Yun had to rely on it, so Chu Yun could only do this.
What surprised Chu Yun was not that Shi Le escaped, but that Shi Le was so defeated, in Chu Yun's heart, Shi Le was a super master of the master of the Divine Stone, and he even threw down the large army and fled without saying a word, which can be regarded as breaking Chu Yun's impression of Shi Le. Except that Shi Le was afraid of the so-called Divine Stone Alliance, there was probably no other explanation.
But Chu Yun couldn't understand why the Shenshi Alliance only sent four people from Huifa and never made a move, this is not like their means, this group of guys is so well-planned and ruthless, Chu Yun has a deep understanding, back then the design of the iron-blooded army was one plan after another, even Chu Yun couldn't detect it, and it was easy to be handed, it stands to reason that this time it is rare and should not be like this? Chu Yun felt that he was very uncomfortable with a punch on the cotton.
In fact, Chu Yun didn't want to think about it, there were only a few Divine Stone Controllers in the whole world, Chu Yun had already killed several of them, of course the weak Divine Stone Controllers would not come to send them to death, and the strong ones were also very afraid of Chu Yun. Besides, this time, except for a few Divine Stone controllers, Chu Yun never personally rushed into battle against ordinary people, and the Divine Stone Alliance had no excuse to go all out against Chu Yun. This gave many members of the Divine Stone Alliance an excuse to refuse to accept the task of dealing with Chu Yun, and the Divine Stone Alliance was not a strict organization, Liu Dog did not participate back then, they were not used, Chu Yun let the Divine Stone Controller go all out, one is that he used the divine power casually but did not have a backstage, and the other reason is estimated to be Liu Kun's full request. Therefore, this time, only Shi Hu's father, Shi Di's grandfather, sent a disciple to try it, and there was no follow-up, it is estimated that Chu Yun will not risk the disapproval of the world, and it is very rare for the Divine Stone Alliance to unite again.
After all, the Shenshi Alliance also has a tendency to split, the three founders all have their own thoughts, and the battle of faith is cruel, the strong rise of Buddhism from Tianzhu, Taoism will not easily give up its status no matter how it is not in contention with the world, the subsequent wars of the North and South are estimated to be the result of the battle of faith, but later on the surface of various deeds, Taoism was defeated, after all, even several dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River began to promote Buddhism, although there were several Buddhist extermination movements later, but Buddhism still firmly stood on its feet.
In any case, the victory of the Great Ming Kingdom was a good thing for Chu Yun. And Shile's other road was also destroyed in Shangjun, You Ziyuan's original plan was that the 50,000 people of the Zhenbei Army led by Yang Ye and the 100,000 Tiefu army led by Liu Dog wiped out the army led by Shile's brother Zhang Quliu, but the plan had a big accident, but it helped the Ming army a lot.
Liu Wuhuan, the nephew of Liu Dog who was cowering in the grassland, was unusual, and he didn't know what evil he had fallen, so he responded to the four countries to declare war on the Ming Dynasty, and ran out of the grassland to prepare to make a profit, he led the only remaining tens of thousands of troops to prepare for a sneak attack on Shangjun, and then ran headlong into Zhang Quliu's army, the two can be regarded as allies, but they were confused together, and both sides were hit hard. Although Yang Ye and Liu Dog didn't know what was going on, their enemies were both defeated, how could they not seize the opportunity. The 150,000 army suddenly surrounded the crippled armies on both sides, Liu Dog chased his nephew Liu Wuhuan, Yang Ye stuck to Zhang Quliu, and finally the two sides won a big victory, Liu Wuhuan was captured alive, and Zhang Quliu fled back to Bingzhou with the remaining thousands of people, but the tens of thousands of troops he brought were almost wiped out.
At this point, Shi Le and Shi Di, the biggest enemies of the Ming Dynasty, have been defeated one after another, and the army of the Great Jin has also become the meat of the mouth of the Ming army, leaving only Qianliang as a big enemy, the second year of the Shengwu war against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty basically won, and now the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as really gaining a foothold.
In the summer of the second year of Shengwu, Chu Yun returned to Chang'an after dealing with the affairs of the northern front, at this time there was good news from the southern front, Zheng Jie finally signed an alliance agreement with Dachengguo, Dacheng declared war on the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and united Xie Ai's army to completely annihilate Wen Qiao's army, and Wen Qiao was captured by Xie Aisheng. At the same time, Dacheng officially launched the Nanzhong War, Li Xiong sent his cousin Li Shou to attack Zhuti, appointed Fei Hei and Yang Pan as the vanguard, and sent the general Zhennan to return to the logging to disperse the reinforcements in Ningzhou. Yin Feng, the assassin of Ningzhou, surrendered, so he occupied the Nanzhong region. In this case, Li Xiong pardoned the criminals in the territory, sent Li Ban to crusade against the Yi people in Ningzhou, and appointed the crown prince and his nephew Li Ban as the Fu army.
However, before Li Xiong could recover from the joy of occupying the entire Nanzhong, Xie Ai tore up the alliance agreement and took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack Hanzhong, and the Dacheng army was defenseless, and Xie Ai swept the entire Hanzhong, and the relationship between the two sides deteriorated rapidly. However, Chu Yun did not believe that Dacheng had the ability to start a war with the two fronts of Daming and Dajin. Li Xiong occupied Nanzhong because Dajin was not guarded, and Dajin had to fight with Dacheng a few times even for the sake of face, and in this case, they would never turn their faces with Daming. Sure enough, Li Xiong sent an envoy to buy Hanzhong back with money, grain and materials, and Chu Yun agreed under the persuasion of You Ziyuan.
First, the reputation of the Ming Dynasty cannot be ruined by the south of the country, although the agreement between countries is used to tear up, but the Ming Dynasty has lost its credibility in the whole world, and many times it does more harm than good. And Hanzhong is no longer the Hanzhong of the original Zhang Lu, the people's livelihood in Hanzhong is withering, after all, the Diren Yang Nandi has been tossing here for a long time, and it was occupied by Dacheng the year before last, and it is not worth losing credibility for Daming for it.
Moreover, the position of Hanzhong is very embarrassing, because he is almost undefended for Dachengguo, why did Cao Cao obviously occupy Hanzhong, but felt that there were some "chicken ribs" for this war, not to occupy Hanzhong, to consume a large number of troops to station, and to achieve half the result.
Third, Daming is really short of food, although it occupies Guanzhong, but years of war, people's livelihood withered, Daming now needs to recuperate, Dacheng's materials are undoubtedly what Daming needs.
Therefore, You Ziyuan told Chu Yun that as long as he occupied the checkpoint pass on the border between Hanzhong and Yongzhou, even if Hanzhong returned it to Dachengguo, he could get it back in minutes, and it was better to exchange some materials and let Dachengguo and Dajin continue to fight to the death, and Chu Yun was convinced. Dacheng needs to exchange a large amount of supplies for a Hanzhong that has lost its northern barrier.
And on the Western Front, with Chu Yun's continuous replenishment of troops to Lu Zhong, Lu Zhong, who was passively beaten, finally hardened, Lu Zhong could extremely advocate the offensive back then, although there were many small problems, but the attack could be said to be the sharpest of Chu Yun's cavalry troops, after getting tens of thousands of cavalry supplements, Lu Zhong fought several field battles with Qianliang, although there were mutual victories and defeats, but it also made Zhang Jun feel uneasy, the transmission speed of news in this era was amazingly slow, Zhang Jun did not know that the rest of the armies were all supported by the Ming Kingdom。 However, Zhang Jun is worthy of being the most accomplished lord of Qianliang, he immediately chose to withdraw his troops, and Chu Yun had no intention of pursuing, in fact, if he didn't withdraw his troops, Chu Yun would personally tell him that his allies were all finished, after all, the family of the Ming Kingdom was about to be empty. The materials of Dacheng have not been sent yet, but Wang Jie has snatched a lot of things from Si Lizhou, but it is not enough to compensate for this loss, it is estimated that You Ziyuan will be busy in the future, Chu Yun, the emperor, is in retreat again, this time he has captured so many prisoners, and the secret guards have lost a lot, how can Chu Yun not replenish it.
Just when Chu Yun was in retreat and Youziyuan scolded Chu Yun, the emperor, for being black-hearted, several carriages slowly entered the territory of Shangjun, Shangjun had just encountered a war, and Yang Ye, the leader of the county guard and the Zhenbei Army, was still highly nervous, so the convoy of these dozens of people was immediately stopped.
"Who are you?" is in charge of the investigation of a deputy general, this person is a person from Shangjun, who was moved by Chu Yun from distant Luoyang to Shangdang County, and then from Shangdang County to Shangjun, after Chu Yun's defeat, his father died and did not take refuge in Hulu, and was killed by the Qianghu people, he was determined to take revenge, and waited until the Tiefu people occupied Shangjun, he found an opportunity to kill those Qianghu people, and then lived in seclusion in Shangjun and became a small Han tribe leader. Later, when Chu Yun returned, he joined the Ming Dynasty with his clansmen and became a deputy general.
"This lord, we are just merchants, and we have brought some furs back from the grassland, and I hope that the lord will be accommodating. An old man came up and took out a piece of gold to hand it to the lieutenant.
But the adjutant didn't look at it and threw the gold back.
"We Ming soldiers have rules that we can't accept bribes, you are trying to harm me, and someone will search you. After the lieutenant finished speaking, the old man was not only not surprised, but nodded, looking very satisfied.
"This general should be a lieutenant, I hope you can take us to meet your superior. The old man's face suddenly became serious, the deputy general actually saw from this old man that the official authority was heavier than his own chief Yang Ye, although the deputy general was surprised but was not ready to compromise, the main reason was that the old man was too weird, and the deputy general couldn't help but think about it less.
"Can you see the people in the carriage? hurry up and inform your superiors, otherwise it is not something that your little lieutenant can afford. Suddenly, a confident voice came, and the adjutant general looked up, as if he had seen something that shocked him, and he was stunned.
"Master, are you Master Fang?" the deputy general walked over and stared at the man who had just spoken and asked excitedly.
"Are you?" the man looked at the adjutant in surprise, apparently not remembering that he knew him.
"Did you have the surname Fang, and once served as a county magistrate in Tujing County?" the deputy general asked even more excitedly.
The man nodded, "That was many years ago. ”
When the adjutant general heard the man admit, he knelt in front of the man with a bang, this scene stunned all the adjutant general's subordinates, is this still the real man who doesn't kneel except His Majesty?